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Harry Jr. Connick
born on 11/9/1967 in New Orleans, LA, United States
Harry Connick, Jr.
Harry Connick, Jr. |
Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr.[1] (born September 11, 1967)[1] is an American singer, musician and actor. He has sold over 28 million albums worldwide.[2] Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 16 million in certified sales.[3] He has seven top-20 US albums, and ten number-1 US jazz albums, earning more number-one albums than any other artist in the US jazz chart history.[4]
Connick's best selling album in the United States is his 1993 Christmas album When My Heart Finds Christmas, which also is one of the best selling Christmas albums in the United States. His highest charting album, is his 2004 release Only You which reached No. 5 in the U.S. and No. 6 in Britain. He has won three Grammy awards and two Emmy Awards. He played Grace's husband, Dr. Leo Markus, on the TV sitcom Will & Grace from 2002 to 2006.
Connick began his acting career as a tail gunner in the World War II film, Memphis Belle, in 1990. He played a serial killer in Copycat in 1995, before being cast as jet fighter pilot in the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day. Connick's first role as a leading man was in 1998's Hope Floats with Sandra Bullock. His first thriller film since Copycat came in 2003 in the film Basic with John Travolta. Additionally, he played the violent ex-husband in Bug, before two romantic comedies, 2007's P.S. I Love You, and the leading man in New in Town with Renée Zellweger in 2009. In 2011, he appeared in the family film Dolphin Tale as Dr. Clay Haskett and in the 2014 sequel, Dolphin Tale 2.
Early life
Harry Connick, Jr. was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.[5] His mother, Anita Frances (née Levy; later Livingston;[6] May 22, 1926 July 1981), was a lawyer and judge in New Orleans and, later, a Louisiana Supreme Court justice. His father, Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Sr., was the district attorney of Orleans Parish from 1973-2003.[7][8] His parents also owned a record store. Connick's father is a Catholic of Irish, English, and German ancestry.[9][10] Connick's mother, who died from ovarian cancer, was Jewish (her parents had immigrated from Minsk and Vienna, respectively).[11][12][13] Connick has a sister, Suzanna; the siblings were raised in the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans.[14] Connick is a first cousin of both Jefferson Parish District Attorney, Paul Connick, and State Representative Patrick Connick (of Harvey, Jefferson Parish).[15]
Connick's musical talents soon came to the fore when he started learning the keyboards at age three, playing publicly at age five, and recording with a local jazz band at ten.[14] When Connick was nine years old, he performed the Piano Concerto No. 3 Opus 37 of Beethoven with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra (now the Louisiana Philharmonic), and later played a duet with Eubie Blake at the Royal Orleans Esplanade Lounge in New Orleans. The song was "I'm Just Wild About Harry". This was recorded for a Japanese documentary called Jazz Around the World.[14][16] The clip was also shown in a Bravo special, called Worlds of Harry Connick, Junior. in 1999. His musical talents were developed at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and under the tutelage of Ellis Marsalis and James Booker.
Connick attended Jesuit High School, Isidore Newman School, Lakeview School, and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, all in New Orleans. Following an unsuccessful attempt to study jazz academically, and having given recitals in the classical and jazz piano programs at Loyola University, Connick moved to the 92nd Street YMHA in New York City to study at Hunter College and the Manhattan School of Music, where a Columbia Records executive Sr. V.P. of A&R, Dr. George Butler, persuaded him to sign with that label. His first record for the label, Harry Connick Junior., was a mainly instrumental album of standards. He soon acquired a reputation in jazz because of extended stays at high-profile New York venues. His next album, 20, featured his vocals and added to this reputation.
When Harry Met Sally..., chart and movie success
With Connick's reputation growing, director Rob Reiner asked him to provide a soundtrack for his 1989 romantic comedy, When Harry Met Sally..., starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal. The soundtrack consisted of several standards, including "It Had to Be You", "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", and achieved double-platinum status in the United States. He won his first Grammy for Best Jazz Male Vocal Performance for his work on the soundtrack.
Connick made his screen debut in Memphis Belle (1990), about a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crew in World War II. In that year he began a two-year world tour. In addition he released two albums in July 1990: the instrumental jazz trio album Lofty's Roach Souffle and a big-band album of mostly original songs titled We Are in Love, which also went double platinum. We Are in Love earned him his second consecutive Grammy for Best Jazz Male Vocal.
"Promise Me You'll Remember", his contribution to the Godfather III soundtrack, was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991. In a year of recognition, he was also nominated for an Emmy for Best Performance in a Variety Special for his PBS special Swingin' Out Live, which was also released as a video. In October 1991 he released his third consecutive multi-platinum album, Blue Light, Red Light, on which he wrote and arranged the songs. Also in October 1991 he starred in Little Man Tate, directed by Jodie Foster, playing the friend of a child prodigy who goes to college.
In November 1992, Connick released 25, a solo piano collection of standards that again went platinum. He also re-released the album Eleven. Connick contributed "A Wink and a Smile" to the Sleepless in Seattle soundtrack, released in 1993. His multi-platinum album of holiday songs, When My Heart Finds Christmas, was the best-selling Christmas album in 1993.
Mid–1990s: funk
In 1994, Connick decided to branch out. He released She, an album of New Orleans funk that also went platinum. In addition, he released a song called "(I Could Only) Whisper Your Name" for the soundtrack of The Mask, starring Jim Carrey, which is his most successful single in the United States to date.
Connick took his funk music on a tour of the United Kingdom in 1994, an effort that did not please some of his fans, who were expecting a jazz crooner. Connick also took his funk music to the People's Republic of China in 1995, playing at the Shanghai Center Theatre. The performance was televised live in China for what became known as the Shanghai Gumbo special. In his third film Copycat, Connick played a serial killer. Released in 1995, Copycat also starred Holly Hunter and Sigourney Weaver. The following year, he released his second funk album, Star Turtle, which did not sell as well as previous albums, although it did reach No. 38 on the charts. However, he appeared in the most successful movie of 1996,[17] Independence Day, with Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum.
Late 1990s: jazz and Hope Floats
For his 1997 release To See You, Connick recorded original love songs, touring the United States and Europe with a full symphony orchestra backing him and his piano in each city. As part of his tour, he played at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, with his final concert of that tour in Paris being recorded for a Valentine's Day special on PBS in 1998. He also continued his film career, starring in Excess Baggage opposite Alicia Silverstone and Benicio del Toro in 1997.
In May 1998, he had his first leading role in director Forest Whitaker's Hope Floats, with Sandra Bullock as his female lead. He released Come By Me, his first album of big band music in eight years in 1999, and embarked on a world tour visiting the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia. In addition, he provided the voice of Dean McCoppin in the animated film The Iron Giant.
200002: Broadway debut, musicals, Will & Grace
Connick wrote the score for Susan Stroman's Broadway musical Thou Shalt Not, based on Émile Zola's novel Thérèse Raquin, in 2000; it premiered in 2001. His music and lyrics earned a Tony Award nomination. He was also the narrator of the film My Dog Skip, released in that year.
In March 2001, Connick starred in a television production of South Pacific with Glenn Close, televised on the ABC network. He also starred in his twelfth movie, Mickey, featuring a screenplay by John Grisham that same year. In October 2001, he again released two albums: Songs I Heard, featuring big band re-workings of children's show themes, and 30, featuring Connick on piano with guest appearances by several other musical artists. Songs I Heard won Connick another Grammy for best traditional pop album and he toured performing songs from the album, holding matinees at which each parent had to be accompanied by a child.
In 2002, he received a U.S. Patent 6,348,648 for a "system and method for coordinating music display among players in an orchestra."[18] Connick appeared as Grace Adler's boyfriend (and later husband) Leo Markus on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace from 2002 to 2006.
200305: Connick on Piano and Only You
In July 2003, Connick released his first instrumental album in fifteen years, Other Hours Connick on Piano Volume 1. It was released on Branford Marsalis' new label Marsalis Music and led to a short tour of nightclubs and small theaters. Connick appeared in the film Basic. In October 2003, he released his second Christmas album, Harry for the Holidays, which went gold and reached No. 12 on the Billboard 200 album chart. He also had a television special on NBC featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Nathan Lane, Marc Anthony and Kim Burrell. Only You, his seventeenth album for Columbia Records, was released in February 2004. A collection of 1950s and 1960s ballads, Only You, went Top Ten on both sides of the Atlantic and was certified gold in the United States in March 2004. The Only You tour with big band went on in America, Australia and a short trip to Asia. Harry for the Holidays was certified platinum in November 2004. A music DVD Harry Connick Jr. "Only You" in Concert was released in March 2004, after it had first aired as a Great Performances special on PBS. The special won him an Emmy for Outstanding Music Direction. The DVD received a Gold & Platinum Music Video Long Form awards from the RIAA in November 2005.
An animated holiday special, The Happy Elf, aired on NBC in December 2005, with Connick as the composer, the narrator, and one of the executive producers. Shortly after, it was released on DVD. The holiday special was based on his original song The Happy Elf, from his 2003 album Harry for the Holidays. Another album from Marsalis Music was recorded in 2005, Occasion : Connick on Piano, Volume 2, a duo album with Harry Connick, Jr. on piano together with Branford Marsalis on saxophone. A music DVD, A Duo Occasion, was filmed at the Ottawa International Jazz Festival 2005 in Canada, and released in November 2005.
He appeared in another episode of NBC sitcom Will & Grace in November 2005, and appeared in an additional three episodes in 2006.
200608: The Pajama Game, Bug and P.S. I Love You
Bug, a film directed by William Friedkin, is a psychological thriller filmed in 2005, starring Connick, Ashley Judd, and Michael Shannon. The film was released in 2007. He starred in the Broadway revival of The Pajama Game, produced by the Roundabout Theater Company, along with Michael McKean and Kelli O'Hara, at the American Airlines Theatre in 2006. It ran from February 23 to June 17, 2006, including five benefit performances running from June 13 to June 17. The Pajama Game cast recording was nominated for a Grammy, after being released as part of Connick's double disc album Harry on Broadway, Act I.
He hosted The Weather Channel's mini series 100 Biggest Weather Moments which aired in 2007. He was part of the documentary Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037, released in November 2007. He sat in on piano on Bob French's 2007 album Marsalis Music Honors Series: Bob French. He appeared in the film P.S. I Love You, released in December 2007. A third album in the Connick on Piano series, Chanson du Vieux Carré was released in 2007, and Connick received two Grammy nominations for the track "Ash Wednesday", for the Grammy awards in 2008. Chanson du Vieux Carré was released simultaneously with the album Oh, My NOLA. Connick toured North America and Europe in 2007, and toured Asia and Australia in 2008, as part of his My New Orleans Tour. Connick did the arrangements for, wrote a couple of songs, and sang a duet on Kelli O'Hara's album that was released in May 2008.[19] He was also the featured singer at the Concert of Hope immediately preceding Pope Benedict XVI's Mass at Yankee Stadium in April 2008. He had the starring role of Dr. Dennis Slamon in the 2008 Lifetime TV film Living Proof. His third Christmas album, What a Night!, was released in November 2008.
200911: New in Town, Your Songs
The film New in Town starring Connick and Renée Zellweger, began filming in January 2008, and was released in January 2009. Connick's album Your Songs was released on CD, September 22, 2009. In contrast to Connick's previous albums, this album is a collaboration with a record company producer, the multiple Grammy Award winning music executive Clive Davis.[2]
Connick starred in the Broadway revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, which opened at the St. James Theatre in November 2011 in previews.[20]
American Idol (2010)
Connick appeared on the May 4, 2010, episode of American Idol season 9 where he acted as a mentor for the top 5 finalists. He appeared again the next night on May 5 to perform "And I Love Her".
2012present: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Every Man Should Know
On January 6, 2012, NBC president Robert Greenblatt announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour that Harry Connick Junior had been cast in a four-episode arc of NBC's long-running legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as new Executive ADA, David Haden, a dedicated, straight-shooting prosecutor who is assigned a case with Detective Benson (Mariska Hargitay).
Every Man Should Know
On June 11, 2013, Connick released a new album of all original music titled Every Man Should Know. Connick debuted the title track live on the May 2, 2013 episode of American Idol and appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show the following week to discuss his new project. A 2013 US summer tour was announced in support of the album.
American Idol (Season 12)
Connick returned to American Idol to mentor the top four of season 12. He performed "Every Man Should Know" on the results show the following night.[21]
American Idol (Season 13)
On September 3, 2013, the officials of American Idol officially announced that Connick will be a part of the judging panel for season 13 alongside former judge Jennifer Lopez and returning judge Keith Urban.[22]
Touring Big Band members
The following musicians have toured as the Harry Connick, Jr., Big Band since its inception in 1990:[23]
- Piano and vocals Harry Connick, Jr.
- Drums Shannon Powell, Duffy Jackson, Arthur Latin II, (Winard Harper, Jeff "Tain" Watts subs)
- Bass Ben Wolfe, Neal Caine
- Lead trumpet Roger Ingram, (Dave Stahl, Walter White, Walt Johnson subs)
- 2nd trumpet Dan Miller, Derrick Gardner, Bijon Watson, Sal Cracchiolo (Earl Gardner, Greg Gisbert, Darryl Shaw subs)
- 3rd trumpet Jeremy Davenport, Joe Magnarelli, Mark Braud
- 4th trumpet Leroy Jones, Mark Braud
- Lead alto saxophone Brad Leali, Mike Smith, Jon Gordon, Ned Goold, Geoff Burke
- 2nd alto saxophone Mark Sterbank, Will Campbell, Ned Goold
- 1st tenor saxophone Jerry Weldon, (Geoff Burke sub)
- 2nd tenor saxophone Jimmy Greene, Ned Goold
- Baritone saxophone Dave Schumacher (Howard Johnson sub)
- Clarinet Louis Ford
- Lead trombone Mark Mullins, John Allred, Jeff Bush
- 2nd trombone Craig Klein, John Allred
- 3rd trombone Lucien Barbarin, Craig Klein
- Bass trombone Joe Barati
- Vocals, trombone, percussion Lucien Barbarin
Connick and New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina
Connick, a New Orleans native, is a founder of the Krewe of Orpheus, a music-based New Orleans krewe, taking its name from Orpheus of classical mythology. The Krewe of Orpheus parades on St. Charles Avenue and Canal Street in New Orleans on Lundi Gras (Fat Monday) the day before Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday).
On September 2, 2005, Harry Connick, Jr., helped to organize, and appeared in, the NBC-sponsored live telethon concert, A Concert for Hurricane Relief, for relief in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He spent several days touring the city to draw attention to the plight of citizens stranded at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center and other places. At the concert he paired with host Matt Lauer, and entertainers including Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Kanye West, Mike Myers, and John Goodman.
On September 6, 2005, Connick was made honorary chair of Habitat for Humanity's Operation Home Delivery, a long-term rebuilding plan for families victimized by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast.
Connick's album Oh, My NOLA, and Chanson du Vieux Carré were released in 2007, with a following tour called the My New Orleans Tour.
Musicians' Village
- Main article: Musicians' Village
Connick and Branford Marsalis devised an initiative to help restore New Orleans' musical heritage. Habitat for Humanity and New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity, working with Connick and Branford Marsalis announced December 6, 2005, plans for a Musicians' Village in New Orleans. The Musicians' Village includes Habitat-constructed homes, with an Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, as the area's centerpiece. The Habitat-built homes provide musicians, and anyone else who qualifies, the opportunity to buy decent, affordable housing.
In 2012, Connick and Marsalis received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.[24]
Personal life
On April 16, 1994, Connick Jr. married former Victoria's Secret model Jill Goodacre, originally from Texas, at the St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans. Jill is the daughter of sculptor Glenna Goodacre, originally from Lubbock and now Santa Fe, New Mexico. The song "Jill", on the album Blue Light, Red Light (1991) is about her. They have three daughters: Georgia Tatum (born April 17, 1996), Sarah Kate (September 12, 1997), and Charlotte (born June 26, 2002). The family currently resides in New Canaan, Connecticut and New York City. Connick is a practicing Roman Catholic.[25][26][27]
In December 1992, he was charged with bringing a gun to the security checkpoint in an airport.[28] Connick was arrested by the Port Authority Police in 1992 and charged with having a 9mm pistol in his possession at JFK International Airport. After spending a day in jail, he agreed to make a public-service television commercial warning against breaking gun laws. The court agreed to drop all charges if Connick stayed out of trouble for six months.[29]
- Main article: Harry Connick, Jr. discography
- Dixieland Plus (1977)
- Pure Dixieland (1979)
- Harry Connick Jr. (1987)
- 20 (1988)
- When Harry Met Sally (1989)
- We Are In Love (1990)
- Lofty's Roach Souffle (1990)
- Blue Light, Red Light (1991)
- 25 (1992)
- When My Heart Finds Christmas (1993)
- She (1994)
- Star Turtle (1996)
- To See You (1997)
- Come by Me (1999)
- 30 (2001)
- Songs I Heard (2001)
- Thou Shalt Not (2002)
- Other Hours : Connick on Piano, Volume 1 (2003)
- Harry for the Holidays (2003)
- Only You (2004)
- Occasion : Connick on Piano, Volume 2 (2005)
- Harry on Broadway, Act I (2006)
- Oh, My NOLA (2007)
- Chanson du Vieux Carre : Connick On Piano, Volume 3 (2007)
- What a Night! A Christmas Album (2008)
- Your Songs (2009)
- In Concert on Broadway (2011)
- Music from The Happy Elf : Connick on Piano, Volume 4 (2011)
- Smokey Mary (2013)
- Every Man Should Know (2013)
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1990 | Memphis Belle | Sgt. Clay Busby | |
1991 | Little Man Tate | Eddie | |
1995 | Copycat | Daryll Lee Cullum | |
1996 | Independence Day | Captain Jimmy Wilder | |
1997 | Excess Baggage | Greg Kistler | |
1998 | Hope Floats | Justin Matisse | |
1999 | The Iron Giant | Dean McCoppin | Voice only |
Wayward Son | Jesse Banks Rhodes | ||
2000 | My Dog Skip | Narrator | |
2001 | South Pacific | Lt. Joseph Cable | |
The Simian Line | Rick | ||
Life Without Dick | Daniel Gallagher | ||
2003 | Basic | Pete Vilmer | |
2004 | Mickey | Glen Ryan (Tripp Spence) | |
2005 | The Happy Elf | Lil' Farley (narrator) | |
2007 | Bug | Jerry Goss | |
P.S. I Love You | Daniel Connelly | ||
2008 | Living Proof | Dr. Dennis Slamon | |
2009 | New in Town | Ted Mitchell | |
2011 | Dolphin Tale | Clay Haskett | |
2013 | Angels Sing | Michael Walker | |
2014 | Dolphin Tale 2 | Clay Haskett |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1992 | Super Bowl XXVI | Himself | performed "The Star Spangled Banner" |
Cheers | Russell Boyd | episode "Diminished Rebecca with a Suspended Clif" | |
1994 | Ghostwriter | Himself | episode "What's Up with Alex?: Part 1" |
1997 | Action League Now! | Big Baby (voice) | episode "Rock-A-Big-Baby" |
2001 | Evening at Pops | Himself | |
2002–2006 | Will & Grace | Leo Markus | 23 episodes |
2008 | This Old House | Himself | episode: New Orleans Project: Part 1 |
2009 | Hey Hey It's Saturday, The Reunion | Himself - guest judge | |
Australian Idol | Himself - guest judge | ||
2010 | American Idol | Himself - guest judge | |
2012 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Executive A.D.A. David Haden | episodes: "Official Story", "Father's Shadow", "Hunting Ground", and "Justice Denied" |
2013 | American Idol | Himself - guest judge | |
2014 | American Idol | Himself - judge | Season 13 with Jennifer Lopez and Keith Urban |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1990 | Carly in Concert: My Romance | Guest artist | |
1993 | The Harry Connick Jr. Christmas Special | Himself | CBS Special |
1998 | Harry Connick Jr.: Romance in Paris | Himself | PBS special |
1999 | The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr. | Himself | |
2003 | Harry for the Holidays | Himself | NBC special |
2004 | Only You: In Concert | Himself | PBS special |
2007 | 100 Biggest Weather Moments | Host | |
Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 | Himself | ||
2010 | Daytona 500 | Himself | performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
2013 | World Series | Himself | performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
- 1990 An Evening with Harry Connick Jr. and His Orchestra (special, concert)
- 2001 Thou Shalt Not (Broadway Musical) composer
- 2006 The Pajama Game (Broadway Musical)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It (Broadway Musical) (postponed)[30]
- 2010 Harry Connick, Jr.: In Concert on Broadway (special, concert)[31]
- 2011 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Broadway Musical)
- 1.0 1.1 Hapton, Deborah (December 12, 2008). Nightline Playlist: Harry Connick Jr.. Retrieved on December 20, 2012.
- 2.0 2.1 Harry Connick Jr. Announces New Album Produced by Clive Davis, vintageguitar.com, July 30, 2009
- Top Selling Artists. RIAA. Retrieved on August 1, 2009.
- Chart Beat, Billboard, April 9, 2009
- Internet Broadway Database: Harry Connick, Junior. Credits on Broadway. Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved on July 2, 2007.
- Stated on Finding Your Roots, PBS, March 25, 2012
- Harry Connick, Junior's. profile at FilmReference.com. Filmreference.com. Retrieved on July 25, 2010.
- Tulane Law School Establishes Scholarship Honoring Harry Connick and the late Anita Connick. Law.tulane.edu (January 6, 2004). Retrieved on July 25, 2010.
- Musician balancing his work as actor|The Columbus Dispatch. Dispatch.com (2009-02-02). Retrieved on 2012-05-08.
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001065/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
- Feher, Heather, Connick Is Mr. Right for 'Grace', Zap2it, September 26, 2002. URL accessed on December 24, 2007.
- Stephanie Mansfield, "Deconstructing Harry", Vogue, April 1998: pp. 211, 214, 216; online posting, connick.com. Retrieved July 17, 2007.
- Genealogy Data, p. 39 (Family Pages). Paulmlieberman.org. Retrieved on 2012-05-08.
- 14.0 14.1 14.2 Beuttler, Bill, When Harry Met Stardom, Music, American Way, August 1, 1990. URL accessed on October 2, 2007.
- Jeremy Alford, "The Connick Connections", August 27, 2010. thejeffersonreport.com. Retrieved on September 21, 2011.
- MDHS The Eubie Blake Collection, Maryland Historical Society
- Independence Day (1996). Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on May 26, 2010.
- System and method for coordinating music display among players in an orchestra.
- Scott, Brian (November 30, 2007). Kelli O'Hara gets ready to ring in the holidays and prepares for a busy new year; Neal Huff engages in some Trumpery; and Jenn Gambatese enlivens Is He Dead?Feature on. Theatermania.com. Retrieved on July 25, 2010.
- Jones, Kenneth."On a Clear Day Will Rise at Broadway's St. James Theatre Nov. 12; Harry Connick Jr. Stars" Playbill, June 29, 2011
- American Idol Top 4 Results Recap (Redux): Don't Know WhyThere's No Sun Up in the Sky TV Line, Retrieved August 31, 2013
- Official: J. Lo and Harry Connick Jr. join 'American Idol' Entertainment Weekly, Retrieved September 3, 2013
- Interview with Roger Ingram 12/2008
- http://www.jeffersonawards.org/pastwinners/national
- Harry Connick Jr. to perform during Papal visit. Archived from the original on March 15, 2009. Retrieved on August 24, 2009.
- Harry Connick on Holiday Tour. Retrieved on August 24, 2009.
- 5 Minutes with Harry Connick Jr.. Christianity Today. Retrieved on August 24, 2009.
- Harry Connick Arrested, The New York Times, December 28, 1992.
- Plea Bargain For Harry Connick Jr. On Gun Charge - Philly.com. Articles.philly.com (1993-02-03). Retrieved on 2013-02-06.
- Jones, Kenneth."Connick Vehicle Nice Work If You Can Get It Postponed", Playbill, July 25, 2008. Retrieved 7-26-2008.
- Tix On Sale Today For Harry Connick, Jr. in Concert on Broadway, broadwayworld.com, May 4, 2010
Further reading
- Harry Connick, Jr. interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' November 2009
- Eggar, Robin, When Harry met Katrina, The Times, September 30, 2007. URL accessed on October 2, 2007.
- "Harry Connick Jnr discusses playing, singing and arranging." [radio transcript]. 2005. The Music Show. Presented by Andrew Ford.
- Audio interview recorded April 2007 in Toronto, Canada
- Article on Connick's United States patent 6,348,648 for a "system and method for coordinating music display among players in an orchestra."
External links
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Harry Connick, Jr. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Harry Connick, Jr.
- Harry Connick Jr. official website
- Harry Connick Jr. webpage on Marsalis Music
- Harry Connick Jr. website on Sony Music
- Harry Connick, Jr. at the Internet Movie Database
- Harry Connick, Jr. at the Internet Broadway Database
- Harry Connick Jr. at MySpace
Harry Connick, Jr. |
Discography |
Studio vocal albums: Dixieland Plus ·
11 ·
20 ·
We Are in Love ·
Blue Light, Red Light ·
25 ·
When My Heart Finds Christmas ·
She ·
Star Turtle ·
To See You ·
Come by Me ·
30 ·
Songs I Heard ·
Harry for the Holidays ·
Only You ·
Oh, My NOLA |
Filmography |
Film: Memphis Belle ·
Little Man Tate ·
Copycat ·
Independence Day ·
Excess Baggage ·
Hope Floats ·
The Iron Giant ·
Wayward Son ·
My Dog Skip ·
The Simian Line ·
Life Without Dick ·
Basic ·
Mickey ·
Bug ·
P. S., I Love You |
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Birth Stories: The Instinct of Birth
Editor's note: This article first appeared in The Birthkit Issue 1, Spring 1994
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When a woman is in labor, a little fight goes on in her brain. One part of her brain, the intellect, will tell her that she should do certain things. Perhaps those are things that learned in childbirth classes; perhaps those are things that other people have told her that she should do to cope with birth.
But from the other part of the brain will come an urge so deep within her that it will compel her to move her body and to use her voice in a completely different way.
Those are her deep instincts about childbirth, but we have buried these for so long that most of us have forgotten that knowledge. Occasionally, though, I see women who remember…
Very early in my practice, a young 16- or 17-year-old girl came to see me when she was very, very pregnant. She thought that she was getting close to give birth, so I gave her a very lengthy exam and we talked for almost two hours. She was in good health, so I made an appointment to see her the following week.
But the next day, she returned with her husband. She smiled and said, "Well, here I am. I'm going to have my baby today." I looked at her face and body for some evidence that she was in labor, but said nothing. "Well, let's take you back to the room and we'll give you an examination," I said.
"Are you having contractions?" I asked her. "Oh, you bet I am," she said. I expected to find a very closed cervix—but she was 8 centimeters!
She wanted to deliver in our clinic's birthroom. So we went into the room and she jumped up on top of the bed. She began to order everyone around. She said to her husband, "Now I would like you to sit in that chair." And she said to me, "I would like you to sit on this bed with me." I still saw no evidence that she was in labor.
I got our sterile bowl of instruments and put it down next to me on the bed. And this woman sat there and continued to smile, looking like an angel. She closed her eyes and pulled up her skirt. "Well, as I said, the baby is coming," she said. I sat there with my silly little bowl.
She opened her legs and the bag of waters appeared at the opening of her vagina. The water broke like a little river and the head appeared. She took the baby's head in her hand, and when the shoulders turned she took her baby out and put it on her tummy. Then she said, "I would like my husband to cut the cord, please." I showed him what to do, he cut the cord, and the family enclosed themselves. And I still sat there, and had done nothing so far. Then she said, "Oh, excuse me, but here is my placenta now." She pushed it out into the bed so I gathered it up, and my little bowl, and everyone was fine so I just left the room.
I talked with her later about why birth seemed so easy for her. After all, she was only 16. She told me that her mother, who had many children, told her that when she was in labor, she would feel God's power coming through her and she should do anything possible to welcome it. So that was the attitude that this woman had about birth. There was no doubt in her mind that she would know what to do. Her knowledge and courage impressed me immensely.
Two days later, I had another young woman in labor. She, too, had never taken childbirth classes but she was very different from the first young girl.
She was very noisy and moved all over the room. She strutted like a big rooster and threw herself on the bed and on the floor. She roared around and moaned loudly. She and her young husband did "high fives" because they were both very proud of what they were doing. Rock music played in the background.
She had a very fast labor, and she told me later that she just did what she felt like doing. She did not think about it. There was nothing to think about—she was just going to do the work and birth her baby.
Women, when they are in an environment that supports them and are with people who trust them, will do exactly what they need to in order to birth their babies. We have forgotten that we remember. I have also learned that women have a very strong desire to be among people who are happy and who have a lot of trust in them. I live and work in a place where women say that birth is so important they should not waste the opportunity. And they say that birth is something that one should "get into," and is not something that one simply must "get through." Imagine a place where women talk about their stories over and over, because they had such a great time, instead of a place where women fear birth.
A woman came to me to have her second baby. She had her first baby elsewhere, using the breathing techniques the childbirth classes had taught. She said, "I felt like I had to huff and puff and blow my baby out." All through labor, she said she felt an urge deep within her that was very wild, almost like an animal. But people kept telling her to be quiet and to stay in control. Well, she said she absolutely did not want anyone at this birth to tell her to shut up and stay in control. She said the feeling in her was so wild—she didn't know what it was—but she wanted to do as she pleased at this birth. And she wanted me just to be her guardian, to watch over the safety of her and her baby as the baby was being born. So, I agreed to her wishes.
When she went into labor, I was called to the hospital. The lights were very low in the room, and my friend, a nurse, was sitting on the floor in the corner, very quietly watching. The woman and her husband were dancing cheek to cheek, with their eyes closed, all around the room. The music was her moaning … aah, aah, aah. I sat quietly in the room and watched them. When my friend had to listen to the baby's heart rate, she crawled over quietly with her little machine and listened, than crawled very quietly back. Finally, the husband opened his eyes and looked at me for the first time. He smiled and said, "Oh, this is just like the dance at our wedding."
The woman really didn't notice I was there. During contractions, she pulled away from him, threw herself on the bed, grabbed the pillow in her mouth and rolled around. Then she came back together with him and he held her, and they continued to dance together, everywhere, all over the room.
Finally, she bent over and squatted by the bed. She had a startled look on her face and she said to me, "Oh, no!" "What's the problem?" I asked. "Well, I'm pushing already and I was having such a good time!" She did not want to be finished. I thought, "Every woman and her husband should have the opportunity to birth in this way. Unlike most women, who can hardly wait for labor to be finished, this woman was just beginning to get into it."
If we can understand that the best things in life do not come to us without our effort, and if we can discover a different understanding of childbirth pain, then we will find that we do not need to pull away and run for it, as if we are frightened.
Only then, can we emerge from the other side of birth much bigger than we were before we started.
Candace Whitridge is a nurse-midwife and farmer in Northern California. These stories are from a talk she gave in Poland.
Related Information:
- Tragic Histories by Candace Whitridge – Midwifery Today Issue 36


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I am very excited to present at ALA 2010 Annual Conference LITA BIGWIG Social Software Showcase. The topic I am presenting is Information Overload & Personal Information Management. I know that it is not anything fancy or something that would satisfy your techno-lust. But there is a lot to think about libraries and information overload, which has quickly become part of our daily life. Whether we like it or not, information overload is the everyday reality that all of us including library users, now have to cope with and manage. The traditional library systems, programs, and services, on the other hand, have been slow in moving towards acknowledging and addressing the new needs of library users who suffer from information fatigue and are ready to "satisfice" as a result.
Curious? Come join the BIGWIG Showcase on Monday, June 28, 2010 from 10:30 am to Noon at the Renaissance Washington Grand BR South/Central.


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The Enrichment Center likely disapproves of the SoundCube: a portal music box in the form of a Portal Companion Cube. [Andreas] finished this project a couple of years ago, but we're glad he's finally had time to give a rundown on the details at his blog.
The build is primarily a modified speaker box cube—constructed out of what appears to be MDF—with four Alpine SXE-1725S speakers placed at the center of the middle faces. The faces were routed out to resembled the Companion Cube, while the electronics mount and the speaker grills were 3d printed. Inside is a homemade amplifier built around an Arduino Mega, with a TDA7560 quad bridge amplifier, a TDA7318 audio processor, a Belkin bluetooth receiver, and a 3.5″ touchscreen for volume control and for input selections.
Two 12v 7.2Ah lead-acid batteries keep the cube functional for an entire weekend of partying, but probably add a few pounds to the already hefty MDF construction. Check out [Andreas's] blog for more pictures and his GitHub for all the necessary code.


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Fridaygram: Course Builder, superhydrophobia, Easter Bacon
September 14, 2012
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By Scott Knaster,
Google Developers Blog
This summer Google ran an online course called
Power Searching with Google
. The course was so popular that
Peter Norvig
and the
Research at Google
people who created it decided to generalize the course code and framework, and make it into
Course Builder
, an open source project that's now available. The Research team points out that Course Builder is an experiment, and there's a lot of work still to be done, but if you're interested in this approach, you can join a
bunch of schools
that are considering using Course Builder.
Speaking of research, you might think that we have little new to learn about the very basic task of boiling water, but of course that's not true. Researchers at several schools around the world recently collaborated to produce a way to
boil water without producing bubbles
This discovery has many potential practical applications. It could be used to prevent vapor buildup that can cause explosions, or could even lead to discoveries of ways to reduce surface drag or prevent frost from forming. But most important, it's really, really cool.
Finally, here's a fun new Easter egg (or is it a valuable new search tool?). In a Google search box, enter the name of your favorite actor, followed by
Bacon number
. (If you're unfamiliar with the Bacon number phenomenon, you can
find out more
.) Maybe you'll get some ideas about movies to see over the weekend!
Each week our
presents cool things from Google and elsewhere that you might not have heard about. Some Fridaygram items aren't related to developer topics, but all of them are interesting to us nerds. For extra credit this week, you can check into the small set of people who have a defined
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The 700 Series Ripstick (Jerkbait) Lures
A rattling minnow imitator designed to deliver a wide erratic action. This tournament winning "jerkbait" has a curved design, "V-bill" for speed, and nearly suspends without weights.
Body Length: 4 3/4″ Bill Length: 13/16″ Total Length:5 3/16″
Weight: 5/8 oz. Max. Diving Depth: 12′ Hook: # 6


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For five years now, I keep looking for new and interesting podcasts that push the form. My biggest distress with the medium has been the way that people generally stick to the safe formats (including, first and foremost, me.) I've always thought that podcasters should take advantage of the very low investments required and low repercussions of failure to try crazy things. That led to early experiments like the "Podcat" show that took clips of other podcasters, mixed them together over a techno beat and seperated sections with a crazy cat meowing.
I've recently found a show that I think has all the cool format breaking goodness I long for as well as is legitimately funny. That can be rough to come by sometimes. It's called Tweet Me Harder and is the self-proclaimed "first, best, only and last talkback enabled interactive audio podblast." It's done by two webcomics artists, David Malki! and Kris Straub and is everything I would have hoped to have gotten from You Look Nice Today but that I never actually did.
The show seems to have some natural Subgenius elements to it. They talk about whatever random surreal bull-dada occurs to them, which is generally pretty funny. They stream it live and also podcast it, and while they stream it they interact with listeners from their Twitter account. By adding the hashtag with a show number to your tweets, they see it while they are recording and talk about them, which also means you can go back and look at the chatter from previous shows such as the most current one at this writing.
I got a show almost by random, appropriately enough, because I subscribe to other Kris Straub productions and got one episode in one of those feeds. I enjoyed it and have been listening to all the episodes from #1 forward. As much as I enjoy the wacky hijinks of the regular episodes, it's the weird breaking of the (very loose) format that I enjoy best. First there was a "freestyle" rap battle to solve a dispute. I put quotes around "freestyle" because how freestyle can a prerecorded bit actually be? It got extra brilliant when the contest was judged by Fake Stan Lee, who tried his best to put everything in the context of early 1960's Marvel characters only to get cut off every time. "That reminds me of when the Mighty Thor met the Incredible Hulk…" "Ok, thanks Fake Stan."
I just got to shows #15 and #16, which had a fantastic macguffin. I don't think I want to say what it is (even though it is pretty easy to tell early on) because the slow reveal is the real fun part. I just like this show. I don't know how long this can go and I have yet to take part in the interactivity but I enjoy each talkback enabled interactive podblast.


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By gguarino | January 22, 2013 Send Feedback
The European Aviation Safety Agency has recertified an upgraded Airbus A320 full flight simulator (FFS) at L-3 Link's Asian Aviation Training Center (AATC) in Thailand to a Level D type rating.
(AATC's A320 FFS)
Level D is the highest achievable FFS certification, granted by EASA and FAA. The rating requires an FFS motion platform to have all six degrees of freedom, and a visual system with an outside-world horizontal field of view of at least 180 degrees, among other special motion and visual requirements.
L-3 said the A320 FFS was upgraded with Projectiondesign's FL35 DLP LED projection system, which provides reduced maintenance costs and an RSI XT4 image generator capable of producing 4 million pixels per channel. The company first installed the FL35 DLP LED on a Boeing 777 FFS, and noted no drop-off in resolution or intensity light output after nine months.
"The decision to upgrade our Asian Aviation Training Centre's A320 simulator with the FL35 projection system has resulted in improved training device performance, which far exceeds regulatory requirements in the critical areas of vertical-field-of-view, light point resolution, brightness and runway recognition at range," said Lenny Genna, president of L-3 Link. More
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Fact #1: After you've interviewed for a job, hiring managers don't always get back to you in the time frame they told you they would.
Fact #2: You should absolutely follow up with a polite email if you're expecting to hear back and you haven't.
Fact #3: You can use this message not just to check in, but to give the decision-maker even more info that'll show you're the right person for the job.
That's right. Take this traditional "just following up" email:
Hi Damon,
I hope you had a great week. You had mentioned that you'd be in touch with next steps on the hiring process by Wednesday, so I just wanted to check in. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help with your decision.
There's nothing wrong with that note. It's brief, it's polite, and it gets your name in front of the hiring manager.
That said, instead of asking if there's anything you can do to, in essence, boost your candidacy, why not take that next step and provide something that does just that?
Let's say you're applying to a social media position with Dolby. You might say something like this instead:
Hi Damon,
I hope you had a great week. You had mentioned that you'd be in touch with next steps on the hiring process by Wednesday, so I just wanted to check in.
In the meantime, I wanted to share a social campaign that I launched this week. It's already had more than 5,000 shares—the company's second most successful program ever. I think something similar to this would be very impactful for Dolby, and I'd be excited to jump right in and get started.
In this message, you've shared another example of your work, you've highlighted a recent success, and you've reiterated your enthusiasm for the position. And you've done so proactively, which is never a bad thing.
You can tailor this template pretty easily if your work is online or easily sharable, like writing, marketing, or design.
Or, if your work or goals can be quantified—you're in sales or account management, say—you might try something like this:
In the meantime, I wanted to share that I finished this month as the #1 sales rep in the New York market. It was a big honor, and also a reminder that I'm ready for my next challenge, hopefully as the Sales Manager at Dolby.
If your work is more behind-the-scenes, or you're working on proprietary information that can't necessarily be shared externally, you might consider describing a project you're working on (one that could apply in some way to the job you're applying for) in broader terms:
In the meantime, I wanted to share that I just put the finishing touches on a crisis communications plan for one of our technology clients—a three-month process that involved collaborating with everyone from the customer success team to the CEO. It was a great experience, and one that made me even more excited about the opportunity to work on the communications team at Dolby.
Still stumped? Here's something anyone, in any field, can do:
In the meantime, I wanted to share an article that I published last week on LinkedIn, which was inspired by the conversation we had about [topic you discussed in interview]. It'll give you a little more on how I think about [subject matter]. Thanks for the inspiration—I hope we have the opportunity to work together and have many more of these conversations.
Assuming you're not the only candidate in the pipeline, your "just checking in" email will probably be one of many sitting in the hiring manager's inbox. Use the opportunity not just to follow up, but to show once again why you're the best candidate for the job.


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Friday Intermediate Classes (Video Conference)
A weekly online class via Zoom on Fridays by IM Georgi Orlov.
This class is designed for Intermediate level players and is very helpful for tournament players. Is this class for you? See how to choose classes.
We teach powerful chess tools to get ahead in the game:
- Strategy lessons and cool openings
- Tactics
- Homework
Below is the meeting invitation for Friday's remote chess lessons. To join the meeting, click on the link below following the "Join Zoom Meeting". You can connect by laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Please use a webcam setup so I can see the students. You'll probably want to arrive a few minutes early and test your microphone and camera.
Kindly remind students to hold questions and comments during my lesson until I open the floor for discussion. Allow one student to finish their thoughts before jumping in. This will reduce interruptions and maintain the integrity of the chess session.
It is good practice to mute your microphone until you talk to reduce background noise. Press the space bar to talk and release to re-mute when your conversation is finished. Think of it as a "push to talk" button.
Parents, we appreciate your help getting your student successfully connected with this technology in our online lessons. We request that no extras (relatives, observers, or remote computers) participate in the session.
We use Chess.com with our Intermediate classes. We encourage students to create a free account to practice their chess and play games as much as they like! Plus, join our Orlov Chess Academy club to reach our members and participate in friendly online club tournaments. For full unlimited access to the whole site with all of its bells and whistles, consider upgrading your membership.
Thanks, Coach Orlov
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FEBRUARY 25, 1996: "Dear Children, today I invite you to conversion. This is the most important message that I have given you here. Little children, I wish that each of you become a carrier of my messages. I invite you, little children, to live my messages that I have given you over these years. This is a time of grace. Especially now, when the Church also is calling you to prayer and conversion. I also, little children, invite you to live my messages that I have given you during the time since I have appeared here. Thank you for having responded to my call."
I greet you all wholeheartedly and just quickly wish to remind us all of January's message. Mary called upon us to decide for peace, and this decision for peace brings with it the decision to pray for peace because only God gives true peace. The decision for peace also includes the decision for love -- a love out of which reconciliation comes or is kept. All this must start in the family so that peace then can be given to all others and it was with that message that we began Lent. In the hope that during this month we experienced something of this true peace, and that love then bore reconciliation, I would now like to think about this month's message with you. This month's message is a real message for Lent.
I invite you to conversion. This is the most important message
Let us again think that the main Marian goal is peace. Peace is the grace that God can and wants to give us, but only if we open ourselves to this grace. One opens oneself to this grace when one prays, fasts, believes and lets oneself be led by God; and when one wants to take the path to God or with Mary to God, then one can always describe this path as the path of conversion. This message is an impulse for us all again to think about conversion, about the meaning of conversion and about the different dimensions of conversion, but even more so that we pray for the grace of conversion and that we then live our conversion.
The reason for our conversion is God's love and mercy. When we are called upon by God to convert, it only means that God gives us the chance to depart from our wrong paths and to turn upon new ones. Was God to lose patience with us, then we would not have the opportunity to convert. So let us very consciously thank God that He again is giving us this opportunity!
From our side conversion first of all means that we leave behind the wrong paths, that we free ourselves from the negative, from sin and from all that is evil, and especially from all dependencies through which we destroy ourselves. This dimension of conversion, that we very consciously fight against all sins in our lives, is very important. In order for us to free ourselves from all sin and all that is evil, we must begin to pray and to fast so that we gain the inner strength to free ourselves from it.
The other dimension of conversion, a very important factor is our spiritual path. Is the positive growth in that we develop the gifts in us that God gave us or the gifts that God gave us to create the conditions for growth. There are, thank God, many people who in taking Mary's path to God, have distanced themselves from sin and all that is evil, and who therefore find themselves on the path to peace. These people sometimes encounter the difficulty of not knowing what they should confess when they feel that they are no longer sinning and no longer doing anything negative. Still it is always very important that conversion not only means turning away sin but, that it also entails an inner growth. This growth knows no boundaries! So even when we know of no sin that we are carrying, we are still called upon to convert. The growth in inner peace, in love, in trust, in mercy, in truth is also included in the description of conversion. We should give more attention to this inner peace and growth, then we should to the fight against the evil. When we, through the Gospel of the first Sunday in Lent, wish to explain the structure of conversion, then it is very clear that Jesus prays and fasts and then in prayer and fasting is tempted. Because Jesus was hungry, the evil one suggests to Him that He make bread out of the rocks, then to throw Himself from the tower and to pray to the evil one so that He could then have the kingdom. Jesus resists all the temptations and then says: "Not only from bread does man live but from every word that comes out of God's mouth." Man may not tempt God but rather pray to God. So not only turning away from sin, but growth in the positive should be our path. The condition for peace that Mary is teaching us here is love for life. Only when we grow positively in this love for life will we then also see exactly what opportunities have been given to us to become active in the good. Conversion is a dynamic situation in our hearts, and when we convert we should ask ourselves whether we are really working on our hearts as Mary once called upon us to "work on your hearts as you work in your fields." The best seed cannot bring fruit in an unprepared soil. Again we must very clearly emphasize that it can happen that we pray, perhaps even fast, go to Mass, but still that we do not wish to convert. Our prayer and fasting should come from as well as lead to the dynamic of conversion, otherwise it can really happen that Christians do small things all their lives but still do not change their lives.
I wish that each of you become a carrier of my message
In several messages, Our Lady has called us to become carriers of her messages. In the true meaning of this, someone can become a carrier of the messages if he himself is living the messages, so when someone truly converts, meaning that he is dynamically working on freeing himself from sin and all evil and on growing in love, peace, trust and faith, he must become active. Love is always active. Love gives people courage as well as wisdom, peace and the inner strength to do something. So when we convert, we fight both within us as well as around against all that is evil. So one can ask oneself how a Christian, or for that matter, all Christians can so easily live along with evil, with sin, with bad habits or with false Christian mentalities? How can we explain that there is so much destruction -- starting with abortion and then drugs and alcohol -- in Christian families or, even more so, in Christian nations? It is said that many have simply pulled back, and that they seek out their "quiet corners" and have lost the courage to fight against all that is evil. At one point, St. Paul says: "You have not yet with your blood, resisted against all that is evil." The message to become carriers of peace therefore means to love and, as Jesus says, even our persecutors, and to offer peace to those who are without peace, it also means to become missionaries in occasionally going out onto the streets and there to offer life to the people. Mary wishes to guide many people to start fighting for life and against death, because so many have decided for death and thus becoming very active missionaries of death and destruction. Yet again, one can say, thank God, that through Mary's presence and intercession many people are carrying her message to individuals, to the families and into the communities. Only in this way can we understand that this message has already arrived in all the corners of the world. For this Parish, it is important, especially in these days of renewal, to become conscious that this message must be alive here, and then also that the whole Parish becomes a carrier of this message -- a carrier who then offers it to others. In this sense Mary often said that she needs us, that without us she cannot do anything. If we say "yes" to the message and live it, then we, in every situation, will find the opportunity to pass along the message. St Paul teaches us that love is also inventive and thus finds it's way. Love gives courage and opens eyes. So let us, as Mary does, all untiringly live and carry the message. When we think of St. Francis we also discover the possible dynamic of conversion that gives space to our growth in love. In this way we can then also understand the sentence that St. Francis spoke shortly before his death:"Brothers, we should again start anew, for we have until now done nothing." He did much, but certainly he was also thinking that had he loved at the beginning of his conversion as he did at the end of his life, then he would have been able to do so much more for the Kingdom of God. Only in that we grow positively, in that our love grows, will we also discover all the rest that we could have done. This message is the same as that of the Gospel and when she says"Live my message", it means to live the Gospel -- to open oneself to peace, to convert, to believe, to fast and to pray. She also called us to holiness, to gratitude, to inner joy, to become active, to form prayer groups and to pray in the families. This is what she wants from us. The Church also calls upon us, and Mary is Mother of the Church, She wants nothing else but to help us be the Church, and to obey the Church. We are after all the Church! Every one of us is a member of the Body of Christ. Every one of us should become very aware how we are responsible for the entire Church, Conversion and being a member of the Church means fighting against sin, deciding for the good and making more room within us for the virtues and the conditions for growth. Without our deciding for this, nothing can happen. Then we always stay in sin, in darkness and in death. So, in this message Mary calls upon us even twice...
To live my messages that I have given you
Her messages of prayer, fasting and faith are the same as those of the Church, and most strongly as in this time of Lent in which, as Mary tells us,...
Especially now, when the Church also is calling you to prayer and conversion
Now in Lent we should again very consciously decide for Mary's path. This means that we pray the entire Rosary every day. The Joyful, the Sorrowful and the Glorious Mysteries and that we leave away all excuses or temptations and that we decide very seriously for prayer. Also in prayer one can live conversion, and that on two levels. If we begin to pray today as we in this moment can, then this is already conversion to prayer, but we should also pray in prayer that we convert. This means that we progressively place ourselves deeper and deeper under the will of God. It can happen that all our prayers become an attempt and even a fight to change the will of God, but when we convert in prayer, we will become ever more willing to accept the will of God and to place our will under His. We should also convert in fasting, and this means that we begin to fast and then progressively do so with the heart, with love. The goal of conversion in prayer and fasting is to free our hearts for the grace that God wishes to give us.
This time is a time of grace
If we do what Mary tells us, then this time will truly become a time of grace. We may not forget that for God the time of grace is always possible because He is always merciful. So it depends upon us and our actions every day to what degree this time becomes a time of grace. Faith, our own believing and then become active, is also a very important message and grace. It means to give one's own heart to the Lord, to entrust oneself to Him and, like a child, to permit oneself to be led by Him. Every word of God must have value in our lives and, as Mary has earlier called upon us, we should pray before the Cross, because from the Cross many graces come to us. She wants us also to adore the Eucharistic Jesus, that we read the Bible, that we form prayer groups and that we very earnestly decide for the path to holiness. So, Lent has just begun and Mary concludes by saying...
I also...invite you to live my messages that I have given you during the time since I appeared here
So let these calls of Mary find an echo in our hearts and may our will be healed so that we without fear and with courage can go along this path with her -- this path through suffering but also the path to the Resurrection, the path to life, the path from hopelessness to hope, from uselessness to finding a purpose and from Godlessness to God. Let us also pray that our path continues along with Jesus and with Mary who accompanies Him.
God, our Father, we thank You for Your love and mercy that make our conversion possible. We thank You for Your patience with us and for Your will for us to again renew our decision to start anew with You. We beseech You, send into our hearts the Holy Spirit so that we will decide for You, so that we, in Your name, can, as Your Son, Jesus Christ did, resist and turn away all sin: that we can also wish not only to live by bread but also by every word that comes out of Your mouth: that we never tempt You but that we always serve You and adore You as the only True God. Cleanse our hearts and our souls so that we can grow in love toward each other, and in this time especially also grow in love toward the poor, Father, we beseech You, bless the Pope, all Bishops and Priests, and all those who spread Your word so that they in this time can experience conversion in their lives, and then can also spread the message of conversion to Your people. Mary, along with you and in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, we ask the Father that your path with us may continue, so that we can have peace. We ask along with you that we, our families, the Communities, the Parishes, the entire Church and thus the whole world may become carriers of your messages. We thank you Mary, that you make us aware that you, as Mother of the Church, also want us to go on our path with the Church. Protect us on this path O Mary! And through your intercession may the Lord bless the entire Church and the entire world. God, Our Father, for this we pray in the name of Jesus, Your Son and Our Lord. Amen.


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In case you wanted something engrossing to keep you distracted from family squabbles this holiday, a special gift just arrived: Civilization VI, which is now available as a $30 purchase for iPad via the App Store.
The world building simulation game is possibly the most ambitious and expansive ever to hit the iPad, and it has hefty spec requirements to match – you'll need at least iOS 11, and also an iPad Air 2, one of the standard iPads released in 2017, or any model of iPad Pro to run it. It also includes a free trial mode that lets you demo the free game for 60 turns without paying a cent (spoiler: you'll want more turns).
Civilization is one of the longest-standing video game franchises, and has seen tremendous success on PC over the years. Civilization: Revolution, a less complex spinout, has previously made its way to the iPad, but this is the full Civilization VI released for PCs originally last year.
If you liked Revolution on iPad, or you're new to the series, definitely give this a try – at least for the free 60 turns. If you're a fan of the franchise with compatible hardware, I know you've already purchased this so I won't waste my breath. Note that the price does go up to its regular $60 after January 4, so there's very little reason to wait on this gem.